noncapturing

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ capturing.

Adjective

noncapturing (not comparable)

  1. Not capturing.
    • 2010 August 21, G. P. Jelliss, “Simple Chess Variants”, in Mayhematics‎[1], archived from the original on 10 March 2026, page 10:
      Another type of rider is the Mao which is the knight in Chinese chess. It makes its move in two steps, a noncapturing wazir move followed by a fers move, so the cell moved through must be vacant. The Moa (W.Speckman) is a knight that moves as fers followed by wazir.
  2. (computing, of part of a regular expression) That does not store its matched text for later processing.
    Synonym: noncapture
    • 2011, Doug Hellmann, The Python Standard Library by Example, page 36:
      Noncapturing groups can be used to describe repetition patterns or alternatives, without isolating the matching portion of the string in the value returned.
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